19th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation October 4‐9, 2015 Pacific Grove, California PROGRAM SUNDAY, October 4, 2015 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm 7:30 pm – 8:00 pm 8:00pm – 8:30 pm Registration Dinner Opening Ceremonies Keynote Address: Peter Vitousek, Ecological Regulation of Biological N Fixation 8:30pm Welcome Reception MONDAY, October 5, 2015 – THURSDAY, October 8, 2015 Monday 7:30am – 9:00 am Tuesday Morning Keynote: Morning Keynote: Claire Gough Session C –
Regulation & Physiology 9:00 am – 9:45 am Dennis Dean 9:50 am – 10:30 am Wednesday Breakfast Session A – Biochemistry 10:30 am – 11:00 am 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Morning Keynote: Jens Stougaard Session E –
Genetics & Genomics of Legume Symbiosis Morning Keynote: Jeff Ehlers Session F –
Real World & Food Security Coffee Break Session A – Biochemistry Session C –
Regulation & Physiology Session B1 – Chemistry & Theory Session D1 –
Excursions
Nodule Development & Differentiation Session G1 –
Microbiology & Synthetic Biology Session D2 –
Global Aspects, Evolution & Ecology Session G2 –
Non‐Legume Systems 12:30 pm – 2:00pm Session E –
Genetics & Genomics of Legume Symbiosis Session F –
Real World & Food Security Lunch 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm ( a f t e r n o o n s e s s i o n s Session B2 – r u n c o n c u r r e n t l y ) Technology & Business 6:00pm – 6:30 pm Coffee / Posters Available 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Poster Session I Coffee / Posters Available Special Dinner Available at Monterey Aquarium Dinner 7:00pm – 8:00pm Poster Session II
FRIDAY, October 9, 2015 7:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast 9:00 am Departure / Post‐meeting excursions 2 Thursday Closing Lecture
Banquet & Farewell Dinner Session Details Keynote Address Name Peter Vitousek Institution Stanford Topic
Ecological Regulation of Biological Nitrogen Fixation Session A: Biochemistry Name Dennis Dean Yuichi Fujita Markus Ribbe Oliver Einsle Luis Rubio Lance Seefeldt Institution Virginia Tech Max Planck Institute UC Irvine Freiburg, Germany Madrid, Spain Utah State Topic
Chasing the Nitrogenase Catalytic Mechanism Reaction mechanism of nitrogenase‐like protochlorophyllide reductase
Assembly of Nitrogenase Cofactor
Ligand binding to the FeMo‐cofactor
Nitrogenase assembly in eukaryotes
Insights into the Nitrogenase Mechanism Session B1: Chemistry & Theory Name Dayle Smith Institution Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ian Dance University of NSW Australia
Vladimir Pelmentschikov Serena DeBeer Technische Universität Berlin
Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Jonas Peters Doug Rees Zhaomin Hou California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
RIKEN, Japan Patrick Holland Yale University Michael Fryzuk Yasuhiro Ohki Bryan Hoffman U. British Columbia, Canada
Nagoya University, Japan Northwestern Topic
Mechanism of N2 reduction by [Fe‐Mo] nitrogenase: structure and thermodynamics of reductive elimination intermediates Density functional simulations of intermediates & steps in the mechanism at FeMo‐co CO‐Inhibited FeMo‐Cofactor of Nitrogenase: Insights by Experiment and Theory
X‐ray Spectroscopic and Computational Investigations of Vanadium and Molybdenum Nitrogenases Catalytic N2 reduction by Fe
Ironing out the nitrogenase mechanism Dinitrogen Activation and Transformation over a Multinuclear Titanium Framework Details of N‐N cleavage and N‐H bond formation at synthetic compounds with multiple iron atoms Using Organometallic Complexes to Fix Nitrogen bio‐mimetic metal‐sulfur compounds
The Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase Session B2: Technology & Business Name Mike Stephens John Howieson Institution Monsanto Murdock University, Australia
Mariangela Hungria Don Smith Sung‐Hwan Cho Stewart Smith EMBRAPA, Brazil McGill University, Canada
University of Missouri Novozymes Topic
TBD
The Nitrogen crisis in real world agriculture ‐ why legumes are being removed from farming systems A successful business story: Inoculants for the soybean crop
Commercializing new novel biologicals: N fixation and beyond
Effect of lipo‐chitooligosaccharide on early growth of C4 grass seedlings
Recent advances in inoculant technology and use Session C: Regulation & Physiology Name Claire Gough Graham Walker Sharon Long Emanuel Souza Ray Dixon Anke Becker Phil Poole Teresa Thiel Institution LIPM, Auzeville, France MIT Stanford UFPR, Brazil John Innes Center Marburg U. Oxford U. Missouri Topic
Symbiotic signalling in the Rhizobium‐legume symbiosis molecular mechanisms underlying the Rhizobium‐legume symbiosis
Rhizobium legume symbiosis
gene regulation in endophytic bacteria Azotobacter gene regulation
comparative genomics‐ regulatory networks Energisation and redox balance in nitrogen‐fixing bacteroids
Transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulation of multiple N2ase gene clusters in the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis Session D1: Nodule Development & Differentiation Name Katharina Pawlowski Ton Bisseling Institution Stockholm University Wageningen U. Netherlands
Topic
The symbioses of the uncultured Frankia clade The fate map of M. truncatula nodules
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RIKEN Ctr. for Sustainable Resource Science LIPM, INRA, France Agriculture & Agri‐Food Canada
Systemic regulation of nodule formation in legumes: closing the circuit
NIN and nodule organogenesis
NF‐YA TFs as key regulators of nodule development Cytokinin signalling and nodule differentiation Session D2: Global Aspects, Evolution, & Ecology Name Lucas Stal Rachel Foster Anne Dekas Anne Morel‐Kraepiel Devaki Bhaya N. A. Provorov Institution NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute Stockholm University LLNL Princeton Carnegie Institution, Stanford
Russia
Topic
The role of temperature in cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation
N2‐fixing planktonic symbioses: distribution, diversity, and activity
Deep‐Sea Benthic Nitrogen Fixation at Methane Seeps and Beyond
TBD
Nitrogen fixation in thermophilic unicellular cyanobacteria
Microevolution of N2‐fixing plant‐microbe symbioses: is inter‐species altruism involved Session E: Genetics & Genomics of Legume Biosynthesis Name Jens Stougaard Stig Uggerhøj Andersen Jeremy Murrey Institution Aarhus University, Denmark
Aarhus University, Denmark
John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Martin Parniske Shin Okazaki MCPMI, LMU Munch, Germany
Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology Topic
Sweet talking; plant recognition of microbial carbohydrates
Identification of nodulation mutants using the LORE1 insertion mutant resource
Defining the core regulons controlling rhizobial infection: Single cell‐type transcriptomics of nin and ern1. TBD
Rhizobial type III secretion system controls host‐dependent nodulation on soybean Session F: Real World & Food Security Name Mariangela Hungria Vladimir Chebotar Doug Cook Institution Embrapa, Brazil ARRIM, St. Petersburg, Russia
UC Davis Topic
A successful business story: Inoculants for the soybean crop
Microbial inoculants: essential and beneficial tool for modern agriculture
Prospecting for nitrogen fixation traits in Mesopotamia, agriculture¹s center of origin Session G1: Microbiology & Synthetic Biology Name Chris Voigt Giles Oldroyd Dominique Loque James B. McKinlay Jim Golden Louis Sherman John Peters Institution MIT John Ines Center, UK Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Indiana University UCSD Purdue University Montana State University Yi‐Ping Wang Peking University, Beijing, China
Topic
Optimization of nitrogenase gene clusters Engineering symbiotic signaling in cereals Syn promoters of mod plant N responses Control of electron flux for N2ase‐ mediated H2 production
Heterocyst development
Nitrogen fixation in Cyanothece Evolution of Mo N2ase during Transition from Anaerobic to Aerobic Metabolism Genetics of FeFe nitrogenase
Session G2: Non‐Legume Systems Name Sharon Doty Institution University of Washington Fernanda do Amaral Fabio Pedrosa Flora Pule‐Meulenberg Pilar Martinez‐Hildalgo Paulina Estrada‐de los Santos Jonathan Zehr University of Missouri University of Parana Botswana College of Agriculture
UCLA IPN, Mexico City Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek University of Bremen UC Santa Cruz Topic
Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Poplar Trees: Applications for Bioenergy and Agriculture Robust biological nitrogen fixation in a model grass‐bacteria association
New Developments in plant diazotrophic bacteria interctions
TBD
Genome features of root‐associated Gram‐positive PGPR Association of nitrogen fixing Burkholderia species with non‐legume plants
Mono et mono: Nitrogen‐fixing symbiosis between single cells, lessons from the marine environment Plant hormone control of endophytic infection 4 Closing Lecture Name Hauke Hennecke Institution ETH Zürich Topic
Evolution of nitrogen fixation research
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